Was Paul commissioned to write the Bible

ILUVLIGHT · Sep 29, 2003

Hi Y'all
I know you all, will think I'm nutts But. Did God tell Paul to write most of it. If not why do we have his letters, and why do we count them as scripture. We have lots of preachers who have great testimonies who's writtings aren't in the Bible. Is it only because he was the first preacher to the gentiles.
May God Bless You.
Mike

Yelsew · Sep 30, 2003

Considering Paul's repeated confession about himself

[Acts 22:3] `I am a Jew', Paul said, `and was born at Tarsus in Cilicia. I was brought up here in this city. It was under Gamaliel that I studied and was taught the exact observance of the Law of our ancestors. In fact, I was as full of duty towards God as you all are today.
[Acts 22:4] I even persecuted this Way to the death and sent women as well as men to prison in chains
[Acts 22:5] as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify. I even received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, which I took with me when I set off to bring prisoners back from there to Jerusalem for punishment.

[Acts 26:4] `My manner of life from my youth, a life spent from the beginning among my own people and in Jerusalem, is common knowledge among the Jews.
[Acts 26:5] They have known me for a long time and could testify, if they would, that I followed the strictest party in our religion and lived as a Pharisee.
[Acts 26:6] And now it is for my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors that I am on trial,

[Gal 1:14] and how, in Judaism, I outstripped most of my Jewish contemporaries in my limitless enthusiasm for the traditions of my ancestors.
[Gal 1:15] But when God, who had set me apart from the time when I was in my mother's womb, called me through his grace and chose
[Gal 1:16] to reveal his Son in me, so that I should preach him to the gentiles, I was in no hurry to confer with any human being,
[Gal 1:17] or to go up to Jerusalem to see those who were already apostles before me. Instead, I went off to Arabia, and later I came back to Damascus.
[Gal 1:18] Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to meet Cephas. I stayed fifteen days with him
[Gal 1:19] but did not set eyes on any of the rest of the apostles, only James, the Lord's brother.
[Gal 1:20] I swear before God that what I have written is the truth.
[Gal 1:21] After that I went to places in Syria and Cilicia;
[Gal 1:22] and was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judaea which are in Christ,
[Gal 1:23] they simply kept hearing it said, `The man once so eager to persecute us is now preaching the faith that he used to try to destroy,'
[Gal 1:24] and they gave glory to God for me.

[Phil 3:5] Circumcised on the eighth day of my life, I was born of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrew parents. In the matter of the Law, I was a Pharisee;
[Phil 3:6] as for religious fervour, I was a persecutor of the Church; as for the uprightness embodied in the Law, I was faultless.
[Phil 3:7] But what were once my assets I now through Christ Jesus count as losses.
[Phil 3:8] Yes, I will go further: because of the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, I count everything else as loss. For him I have accepted the loss of all other things, and look on them all as filth if only I can gain Christ
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It is not difficult to see that Paul was Highly educated, under the greatest teacher in the land. Therefore it is easy to understand that he might also be the most prolific writer of all the Apostles. Luke was not an Apostle, but he was also quite educated being a doctor. Between Paul and Luke, they wrote most of the New testament.

Frogman · Sep 30, 2003

Why did Paul separate himself from the other Apostles? Isn't he the one who says that we should not forsake the assembling of ourselves as some have?

Now, why would such a knowledgeable man go off into Arabia and not immediately to Jerusalem for confirmation in what he was going to teach?

Are these valid questions? If not, forgive me for asking them, if so, then explain the theologically denominational impaired mess we now have.

Remember, when Paul did go to Jerusalem, why did he?

Just trying to make you say.....hmmm....

Bro. Dallas

ILUVLIGHT · Sep 30, 2003

Hi Yelsew and Frogman;
Please don't misunderstand my questions I'm not going to through Paul out of my Bible. The reason I asked these questions is because I don't know.
I understand that the disciples were the first followers of Christ and I'm sure Christ must have instructed them about what to write. It's just that I can't find anything that confirms this with Paul. Luke is another matter he was made a fisher of men the same as the rest.If the disciples were in suspection of him why shouldn't I be. The thing I find intresting is that the disciples with the exception of Peter all wrote books.
Recently I discover there are several books that were originally in the Bible but taken out.Sort of buggs me that someone would do this but there must have been a reason for it.
May God Bless You.
Mike

Yelsew · Sep 30, 2003

Originally posted by ILUVLIGHT:
Hi Yelsew and Frogman;
Please don't misunderstand my questions I'm not going to through Paul out of my Bible. The reason I asked these questions is because I don't know.
I understand that the disciples were the first followers of Christ and I'm sure Christ must have instructed them about what to write. It's just that I can't find anything that confirms this with Paul. Luke is another matter he was made a fisher of men the same as the rest.If the disciples were in suspection of him why shouldn't I be. The thing I find intresting is that the disciples with the exception of Peter all wrote books.
Recently I discover there are several books that were originally in the Bible but taken out.Sort of buggs me that someone would do this but there must have been a reason for it.
May God Bless You.
Mike
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Who wrote 1 & 2 Peter?

The Gospel of Thomas, an apostle
The Gospel of Clement, not an apostle
Neither in the accepted canon of scipture.

There are (or were) catholic posters here with much greater knowledge on the subject than I.

It is the Apostles that were the first hand eye witnesses to Jesus. Anyone can be a disciple (adherant) of Jesus. All believers in Jesus, who live their faith, are disciples of Jesus.

Frogman · Sep 30, 2003

Sorry ILUVLIGHT, my post was meant not to belittle yours, but rather to make the point that the education of Paul meant nothing. Paul was a Pharisee and the Lord said except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the pharisee [ye] shall in not case enter in to the kingdom of heaven. He was talking about faith alone, nor knowledge alone.

Well, I guess my post was out of place...sorry.

Bro. Dallas

Frogman · Oct 1, 2003

He was talking about faith alone, nor knowledge alone.
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In the post above the given quote should read:

He wasn't talking about faith alone nor knowledge alone.

Bro. dallas...correcting himself because all the Arminians have made a choice to not post this afternoon and all the Calvinists were predestinated to not post on the afternoon of Oct. 1, 2003.

May God Bless you where-e'er you are found, on either end or jarring hard in the middle

Bro.Dallas

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